Taylor Water System, LA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Taylor Water System at a glance
Taylor Water System serves about 318 people through 106 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bienville Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1013015; phone on file: 985-705-4696. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Taylor Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Taylor Water System is 110 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 110 ppb over 15 |
How Taylor Water System compares
Of the 802 Louisiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.72 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 30 have gone over at some point. Taylor Water System's 2 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Louisiana and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Bienville Parish County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Taylor Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Arcadia Water System | 4,146 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Ringgold Water System | 2,283 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alberta Water System | 1,860 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cypress Water System | 1,125 | 4 ppb |
| Town Of Gibsland Water System | 979 | 2 ppb |
| Alabama Water System | 948 | 6 ppb |
| Friendship Water System | 717 | 5.2 ppb |
| Mt Olive Water System | 600 | 3 ppb |
| Jamestown Fryeburg Water System | 495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Saline Water System | 450 | 3.1 ppb |
Next steps for Mandeville, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mandeville, LA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Taylor Water System whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.